An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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DELIVERING
The Dutch shipping giant DHL has replaced 10 percent of its vehicles with bicycles (33 delivery vans replaced by 33 bikes), saving 152 tons of CO² emissions and 430,000 Euros a year.”
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THE BUSIEST BIKE IN NEW YORK
Not this one:
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It was No. 17279. Between July and February it was docked at 86 percent of the 330 stations in the NYC bike-share system.
That was just one of the revelations at the Citi Bike NYC Data Showcase, as reported in NextCity, for the quants at NY University. More here, like this:
What they’ve learned about redistributing bikes, especially during the critical morning and evening rush hours, is informing how they’ll do it going forward. “Moving bikes by bikes” is proving successful, so much so that they’re experimenting with heavy-duty tricycles that can ferry at least a half dozen bikes, often more nimbly than a box truck can move.
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THE HOT NEW CITY FOR PROTECTED BIKE LANES IN NORTH AMERICA
Would you believe Cleveland? Potentially.
Cleveland has a plan to reclaim abandoned, paved-over streetcar lines as protected bike lanes in a proposal known as the “the Midway.” Bike advocates and city planners think this new network of protected lanes throughout the city could stretch out to the Cleveland Metroparks and the Emerald Necklace, making Cleveland one of the national leaders in non-car connections. …
The Midway would take these streets, many of which are 72-feet wide, and create a new road layout comprised of a center 16-foot wide bike lane, protected by 8-foot wide planted boulevards from the 12-foot-wide vehicular lanes and 8-foot parking lanes on both sides of the road.
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Dutch or German? Good choice in bike! Interesting that DHL chose to go without the electric assist. At least on the model in the photo. UPS has more elaborate bikes to make their deliveries (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/976_549/images/live/p0/24/vq/p024vqg6.jpg) in Germany. Both are bikes, but it seems that German and American companies have different approaches to how to best serve inner cities and pedestrian zones. Lean human-powered racing machine vs fully enclosed e-assisted car lookalike.